Sandro Tosi added the comment: On Sat, Dec 29, 2012 at 4:33 AM, Tshepang Lekhonkhobe <rep...@bugs.python.org> wrote: > It is my preference to be able to build all of CPython with the > already-installed distro packages, instead of pulling in foreign ones.
IMO, I think with a project as bit as CPython, you should leave you personal preferences apart and use (as much as possible) the tools the project has decided to use: having a consistent set of tools to build doc across everyone/everything (like auto-build doc machines) trying to generate the doc is the proper way to handle it. > Any reason why not use later versions? no-one has done the work of testing, preparation and migration: do you volunteer? :) > Can't the docs be written such > that they can run on various versions of these tools anyway? Not always, but of course, as Georg said, if for note directive we can have a syntax working with current and higher versions of sphinx/docutils, that's ok to do it. I only think that using a non-standard set of doc-build-tools is to be discouraged, and sticking to what Makefile will fetch is the proper way to build the doc and contribute to it. Regards, -- Sandro Tosi (aka morph, morpheus, matrixhasu) My website: http://matrixhasu.altervista.org/ Me at Debian: http://wiki.debian.org/SandroTosi ---------- _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <http://bugs.python.org/issue16805> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com
